Hue to Ninh Binh, 14 hours on a bus (apologies to Paul Kelly)
December 3rd 2009 Hoi An to Hue was supposed to be a 3 hour journey. Straightforward enough you would think. Not in the hands of the now dreaded An Phu travel. OK, it wasn't that bad but it did take 4 hours and a completely gratuitous stop at a crappy restaurant half an hour from Hue. No air-con and a driver who loved overtaking petrol tankers on blindcorners on mountain passes.
As our hotel was located insi
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